WordNet
n. the trajectory of an object in free flight [syn: ballistics]
Usage examples of "ballistic trajectory".
It dropped away from the bomber, its fins unlocked and stabilized the missile in the slipstream, the first-stage motor ignited, and the missile shot past the bomber and flew off into space on a ballistic trajectory.
She had allowed the little hopper to follow its ballistic trajectory, knowing it was going to come down way short of the Astro base in the Malapert Mountains.
If we fired those rockets too soon we would not establish an orbit around Venus, we would merely fling Lucifer into a long ballistic trajectory that would arc back into the clouds halfway around the planet.
Of the more than fifty preprogrammed options available to tell the computer about the ballistic trajectory of the weapons, none of the options fit the dropping of the entire bomb rack.
For the remainder of its course, the warhead followed a ballistic trajectory governed by the same principles which had controlled the projectile fired by a fourteenth century bombard.
Once its solid fuel motor burned out, it would pursue a ballistic trajectory into the ground and explode.
The twenty-meter reconnaissance jump had usually been considered too dangerous to use during the war, leaving the Cobra as it did in a helpless ballistic trajectory for a shade over four seconds.
The TIE fighter didn't blow up, but it did explosively vent its cockpit atmosphere and sailed past Kell on a ballistic trajectory that would end on the simulated surface of Folor.
When they hit the null they continued on in a normal ballistic trajectory.
Bill Tee was rising on a semi-ballistic trajectory to minimize drag, and there would be nothing to see except the clouds for twenty minutes.